Viacom made the announcement official Wednesday afternoon, indicating that Bellator will likely distance itself from its trademark tournament format moving forward.

“We are excited to have Scott Coker lead us in a new direction as we evolve the league format from a tournament-based organization to a more traditional model with big fights,” Spike TV President Kevin Kay said in a statement.

There will be a media conference call to delve a little deeper into this turn of events later today, but if Kay is already using words like “new direction” and “more traditional model”, the forecast is calling for big changes on the horizon.

Yep that tournament format was great, and different. As for Coker he already had a successful promotion he was unable to keep going due to money issues but now with Viacom backing him hopefully they can make a good run.